US6359496B1 - Analog switch including two complementary MOS field-effect transitors - Google Patents
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- H03K17/56—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used by the use, as active elements, of semiconductor devices
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- H03K17/6871—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used by the use, as active elements, of semiconductor devices the devices being field-effect transistors the output circuit comprising more than one controlled field-effect transistor
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- the invention relates to an analog switch including two complementary MOS field-effect transitors whose source-drain circuits are located in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal of the switch, a control signal for controlling the switch being applicable to the gate of the MOS field-effect transistor of the one channel type directly and to the gate of the MOS field-effect transistor of the other channel type via a negator.
- FIG. 1 shows the circuit diagram of one such known analog switch.
- This known analog switch 10 as shown in FIG. 1 contains two complementary MOS field-effect transitors, namely a P-channel field-effect transistor 10 and an N-channel field-effect transistor 12 . Signalling the two field-effect transistors 10 and 12 opposite in phase as needed is achieved by applying the control signal from the control signal terminal 14 used for controlling the switch to the gate of the N-channel MOS field-effect transistor 12 directly and to the gate of the P-channel MOS field-effect transistor 10 via a negator 16 .
- a HI potential signal having namely the potential of the supply voltage Vcc
- Vcc the potential of the supply voltage
- both these field-effect transistors comprise a threshold voltage of approx. 1V.
- This threshold voltage is the potential which relative to the source of the corresponding transistor needs to be applied to the gate so that this transistor changes from the OFF condition into the ON condition, meaning in other words that in this condition the insulation resistance of the transistor assumes very low values; whereas the insulation resistance of the field-effect transistors becomes very high when the supply voltage Vcc, applied as the control signal to the control signal terminal 14 , approaches the sum of the two threshold voltages of the field-effect transistors 10 and 12 .
- An object of the invention is configuring an analog switch of the aforementioned kind so that it can be reliably switched ON/OFF even at low supply voltages with only a negligable leakage current flowing in the OFF condition.
- a switch of the aforementioned kind in accordance with the invention in that between the input terminal and output terminal of the switch the series source-drain circuits of three MOS field-effect transistors are inserted, whereby the MOS field-effect transistor located in the middle of the series circuit has a channel type opposite that of the other two MOS field-effect transistors, that the gates of all MOS field-effect transistors of the other channel type are each interconnected and that the threshold voltages of the three MOS field-effect transistors of the series circuit are lower than the threshold voltages of the two complementary MOS field-effect transitors whose source-drain circuits are connected in parallel.
- MOS field-effect transistors having a high threshold voltage and MOS field-effect transistors having a low threshold voltage now achieves that the analog switch can be reliably signalled OPEN (field-effect transistors OFF) and CLOSED (field-effect transistors ON) even when the supply voltage is low.
- FIG. 1 is a single-line diagram of a prior art analog switch
- FIG. 2 is a single-line diagram of the analog switch configured in accordance with the invention.
- FIG. 2 there is illustrated the analog switch as described in the following, containing in addition to the complementary MOS field-effect transitors 10 and 12 , likewise contained in the prior art analog switch as shown in FIG. 1, three further MOS field-effect transistors 22 , 24 and 26 .
- the field-effect transistors 10 and 24 are P-channel field-effect transistors whilst the field-effect transistors 12 , 22 and 26 are N-channel field-effect transistors.
- the field-effect transistors 10 and 12 have a threshold voltage in the region of 1V, whilst the field-effect transistors 22 , 24 and 26 have a substantially lower threshold voltage in the region of 0V due to application of a special CMOS production process.
- the gates of the field-effect transistors of the same channel type, i.e. the field-effect transistors 10 and 24 , on the one hand, and the field-effect transistors 12 , 22 and 26 , on the other, are interconnected. This means that the gates of the field-effect transistors 10 and 12 receive the control signal applied to the control signal terminal 14 via the negator 16 whilst the gates of the field-effect transistors 12 , 22 and 22 receive this control signal directly, i.e. not negated.
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| DE19954329A DE19954329C1 (en) | 1999-11-11 | 1999-11-11 | Analogue switch using complementary MOSFET's has 3 further MOSFET's with lower voltage threshold connected in series between switch input and output |
| DE19954329 | 1999-11-11 |
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| US20050219102A1 (en) * | 2004-03-16 | 2005-10-06 | Hirotomo Ishii | Analog switch circuit and sample-and-hold circuit including the same |
| US20060214722A1 (en) * | 2005-03-28 | 2006-09-28 | Masaya Hirose | Power switching circuit |
| US20070080737A1 (en) * | 2003-10-23 | 2007-04-12 | Ajay Kapoor | Switch |
| US20080218244A1 (en) * | 2007-03-05 | 2008-09-11 | Fujitsu Limited | Analog switch |
| US7679423B1 (en) * | 2006-12-22 | 2010-03-16 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Switch circuit for magnetic-induction interface |
| US20120081172A1 (en) * | 2010-09-30 | 2012-04-05 | Jonathan Hoang Huynh | High Voltage Switch Suitable for Use in Flash Memory |
| US8395434B1 (en) | 2011-10-05 | 2013-03-12 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | Level shifter with negative voltage capability |
| CN102981547A (en) * | 2011-09-02 | 2013-03-20 | 华邦电子股份有限公司 | Protective circuit and control circuit |
| US8537593B2 (en) | 2011-04-28 | 2013-09-17 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | Variable resistance switch suitable for supplying high voltage to drive load |
| US9330776B2 (en) | 2014-08-14 | 2016-05-03 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | High voltage step down regulator with breakdown protection |
| US9419641B1 (en) | 2015-03-03 | 2016-08-16 | Denso Corporation | D/A conversion circuit |
| US10084432B1 (en) * | 2017-03-23 | 2018-09-25 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Semiconductor device |
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| US4446390A (en) | 1981-12-28 | 1984-05-01 | Motorola, Inc. | Low leakage CMOS analog switch circuit |
| US5448181A (en) * | 1992-11-06 | 1995-09-05 | Xilinx, Inc. | Output buffer circuit having reduced switching noise |
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| US5506528A (en) * | 1994-10-31 | 1996-04-09 | International Business Machines Corporation | High speed off-chip CMOS receiver |
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| US20070080737A1 (en) * | 2003-10-23 | 2007-04-12 | Ajay Kapoor | Switch |
| US7304526B2 (en) * | 2003-10-23 | 2007-12-04 | Nxp B.V. | Switching circuit for handling signal voltages greater than the supply voltage |
| US7332941B2 (en) | 2004-03-16 | 2008-02-19 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Analog switch circuit and sample-and-hold circuit including the same |
| US20050219102A1 (en) * | 2004-03-16 | 2005-10-06 | Hirotomo Ishii | Analog switch circuit and sample-and-hold circuit including the same |
| US20060214722A1 (en) * | 2005-03-28 | 2006-09-28 | Masaya Hirose | Power switching circuit |
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| US7679423B1 (en) * | 2006-12-22 | 2010-03-16 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Switch circuit for magnetic-induction interface |
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| US20080218244A1 (en) * | 2007-03-05 | 2008-09-11 | Fujitsu Limited | Analog switch |
| US20120081172A1 (en) * | 2010-09-30 | 2012-04-05 | Jonathan Hoang Huynh | High Voltage Switch Suitable for Use in Flash Memory |
| US8537593B2 (en) | 2011-04-28 | 2013-09-17 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | Variable resistance switch suitable for supplying high voltage to drive load |
| CN102981547A (en) * | 2011-09-02 | 2013-03-20 | 华邦电子股份有限公司 | Protective circuit and control circuit |
| CN102981547B (en) * | 2011-09-02 | 2015-01-14 | 华邦电子股份有限公司 | Protective circuit and control circuit |
| US8395434B1 (en) | 2011-10-05 | 2013-03-12 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | Level shifter with negative voltage capability |
| US9330776B2 (en) | 2014-08-14 | 2016-05-03 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | High voltage step down regulator with breakdown protection |
| US9419641B1 (en) | 2015-03-03 | 2016-08-16 | Denso Corporation | D/A conversion circuit |
| US10084432B1 (en) * | 2017-03-23 | 2018-09-25 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Semiconductor device |
| US20180278239A1 (en) * | 2017-03-23 | 2018-09-27 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Semiconductor device |
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